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"It's a cenote A here the people who lived here came for their water I found it on my second trip Come, I'll show you"

They went in for about a hundred feet The darkness deepened then lightened as they caht strea in the rocky roof she estih On the far side of the basin was a steep wall that went up to the ghostly glow of the ceiling

"The water is pure," Dr Chi said "The rainfall collects under the lih holes like this and underground caves"

Gae "You know this breed," she said "What do you think they'll do?"

Dr Chi was amazed at his companion's calm manner He shouldn't be surprised, he re after the man who attacked him

"We have so until they confer with the traffickers who hired them about what to do with an American"

"Then what?"

He spread his hands "They have little choice This is a lucrative excavation that they won't want to abandon Which is what they will have to do if they let us go"

"So it will be better for them if we disappear froh they don't know that People uar"

He raised a brow "They wouldn't have been so free in showing us their loot if they thought we'd be around to tell anybody"

She looked around "You wouldn't know a secret way out of here?"

"There are passageways off the main chamber They either end or descend below the water table and are impassable"

Gae of the water "How deep do you suppose this is?"

"It's hard to say"

"You mentioned underwater caves Any chance that this comes up someplace else?"